Leading up to the Sustainability Forum at PaperCon in April, a series of webinars are planned to help manufacturers and customers better understand key issues around sustainability. The first in this series reviews the updated FSC and SFI standards.

A Comparison of the FSC and SFI Forest Certification Standards
January 30, 11:00 am;  Facilitated by: Katie Fernholz, Dovetail Partners; Free to all TAPPI Members

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) standards offer two approaches to forest management certification. Both programs recently updated their standards for forest certification auditing in the United States. This webinar will review the FSC and SFI standards and some of their key differences. The information from this discussion will be helpful to land managers that are audited to these standards as well as to manufacturers and customers interested in understanding the requirements behind these eco-labels.

Learn more and make plans to participate.

Additional webinars in the series:

How to deal with misleading environmental claims related to print and paper?

February 27, 2012 at 11:00am EST - Facilitated by: Phil Riebel, President and COO, Two Sides U.S., Inc.

A Global Sustainability Perspective

March 12, 2012 at 11:00am EST - Facilitated by: Avrim Lazar, FPAC

PaperCon 2012 will take place April 22-25, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and will focus on "Growing the Future"; leveraging renewable, recyclable raw materials and developing human capital to ensure value for customers, long-term sustainability for shareholders, and a future for our peers.

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Renewable Chemicals Live Comes To Washington DC

Renewable Chemicals Live Conference 2012 will be held April 2, 2012 at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC. Co-produced by TAPPI and Biofuels Digest, this conference is colocated with the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference which spans from April 3 – 5, 2012.

Renewable Chemicals Live features the top leadership in renewable chemicals, plastics and bio-based materials. Featuring C-level presentations on finance, scale-up, R&D, policy and global trends.

The combination of Renewable Chemicals Live and the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference will provide four days of "can't miss content" - get the most for your time and money by attending both!

The Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, organized by Biofuels Digest, is the biggest gathering of advanced biofuels CEOs and senior leadership in North America. "Real talk, real action." ·

• 500+ action-oriented attendees.
• More than 40 CEOs giving presentations.
• Including 15 of the 20 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy.

You will not want to miss the two special full-day sessions on Military & Aviation Biofuels, and the Bio-Based Investor Summit featuring "get real" interactive conversation with strategic investors, hedge funds, private equity, sovereign wealth funds, venture capital and institutional investors.

Included with Renewable Chemicals Live, a special add-on, one-day Forest Biorefinery Workshop. This course is intended for forest industry and non-forest industry professionals involved in or impacted by the emerging bio-economy, and who seek to understand better the perspective and priorities of the emerging forest industry commitment to the biorefinery. Executive management including especially strategy planners, as well as product development/technical experts in the bioenergy and renewable chemicals sectors, will be particularly interested in this course.

To learn more about the 2012 Renewable Chemicals Live conference and the Forest Biorefinery Workshop or to register, visit the event website.

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All New PaperCon Papermaking Program Focuses on Packaging Grades

The Papermaking program at PaperCon will showcase packaging grade experts plus tools and techniques to optimize mill operations. PaperCon 2012, April 22-25 in New Orleans, will bring together CEOs, mill managers, superintendents, scientists, process engineers and suppliers for the largest pulp and paper technical program in the world.

Papermaking program highlights include:

 Inside and Outside the Box: Optimizing Packaging Grades

• Keynote Address: The Turnaround at Longview Fibre
• Papermakers Panel Discussion
• Optimizing Containerboard Pressing - Panel Discussion
• Strength Additives: Lighter, Stronger, Faster
• Mineral Oil Migration from Packaging into Food: Panel Discussion
• Forming Innovations
• Success Stories
• Packaging Paper Machine Innovations

Maintaining Quality While Achieving Flexibility

• Advances in Stock Systems Additives
• Fluid Mechanics of Forming
• Deposit Control
• Advancement in Biocide Technology and Application
• Papermaking Roundtable
• See the detailed Papermaking Program (Adobe PDF format).

PaperCon 2012 also features program sessions focusing on management, coating and graphic arts, as well as a Sustainability Forum, the OpEx Maintenance Seminar, RPTA P-T Seminar, workshops, courses, exhibits, and is co-located with Control Systems 2012. No other event combines such a comprehensive program, exhibits - and attracts this distinguished group of industry leaders.

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The 2012 TAPPI PEERS Conference, October 14-17 in Savannah, Georgia, has announced the Call for Papers. PEERS is the perfect forum for paper industry professionals both to acquire practical operating insights and to network with industry peers in technical sessions, tutorials, round tables, new technology sessions and workshops.

Topics suggested for the 2012 technical program are as follows:

• Fiber and Pulping
• Mill Operations and Engineering
• Steam and Power
•  Recycling
• Environmental Management and Regulation
• Sustainability

Abstracts on other topics are welcome.

Learn more.

Authors interested in presenting a paper should upload their extended abstract to TAPPI's Speaker Management System by March 9, 2012.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 20, 2012 and must provide a full text manuscript by July 20, 2012.

For more information please contact Craig McKinney, TAPPI Program Manager at +1.770.209.7294

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Corrugating Defect / Remedy Manual, Sixth Edition

Edited by James T. Carbone

This manual provides a basis for common knowledge of terms, definitions, and methods of correction of corrugated operational defects. The manual illustrates and provides causes and remedies for hundreds of defects affecting corrugated boxes. The manual is divided into four parts: Corrugated Problems; Printing Problems; Die Cutting Problems; and Finishing and Manufacturers' Joint Problems. The manual is also available on a full-color, searchable CD-ROM. 1999. 210 pages, soft cover. Corrugating Defect / Remedy Manual, Sixth Edition

View the Table of Contents

Product code: 0101R153
ISBN: 0898525152
Author: Carbone, J.T.
Format: Soft cover
Pages: 210

Member Price: $87.00

Non-Member Price: $130.00

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TAPPI Member Malcom Taylor Celebrates his 100th Birthday

Malcolm Taylor, a resident of University Village, was honored Jan. 7th at his 100th Birthday party! Mr. Taylor graduated from the University of Louisville in 1933, with a bachelor's of science degree in chemical engineering. That same year he married Ellabell Robertson, also of Louisville. They were married for almost 76 years, until her passing in 2008.

After receiving his doctorate in chemical engineering from Yale University, Taylor went to work in the paper industry, retiring in 1974.

He was active in professional organizations, especially TAPPI, where he has been a member since 1942 and counting!

Happy 100th Birthday Mr. Taylor from your friends at TAPPI!

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